Things might not have worked out all that well for "Suits LA," which was cancelled after one season despite the success of its mothership series. But make no mistake, we are still very much in the age of newstalgia, a streaming trend that's as simple as taking something popular from a bygone era and presenting it to modern audiences as if it were new.
"Bones" might not seem as though it belongs to a bygone time, as the show only wrapped up in 2017. But not only is that almost a decade ago, things have changed pretty dramatically since then. What's more, "Bones" debuted all the way back in 2005, meaning there's a whole TV-watching generation who have no recollection of a time when the show was dominating network TV. Heck, there's a whole generation that doesn't remember network TV, so "Bones" is very much prime newstalgia fodder.
Sadly, a "Bones" revival is a lot more complicated than it might seem following Disney's 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Figuring out who owns what in the wake of such a major buyout might prove tricky enough that we never get a "Bones" season 13. But that would be a big shame, seeing as pretty much every actor from the series is not only willing to return, but is able to do so due to the fact their characters were spared in the series finale.
Did the writers know when they created the episode that fans would be clamoring for a streaming revival in the near future? Well, not exactly.